In 2008 I created a visualisation of 10,000 colour names by plotting the names in their colour on a circle. The angle of the name represents its hue, while the distance from the centre of the circle to the centre of the name represents the value of the colour in the HSV colour space.
I sourced my colour names and corresponding values from a CSV released by Dolores Labs, after an experiment they ran. More details about that can be found on their website.
View the colour wheel as a 300KB PDF. (The PDF contains 10,000 items of text and takes a considerable time to render in Adobe Reader - even on a fast machine)
View the colour wheel as a 17MB 10000x10000 pixel JPG. It will take at least 15 minutes to download.
View the source code for the PHP script that generated the colour wheel.
Work-in-progress screenshots of the colour wheel.